Tag: 3 Nephi

Having seen Jesus and witnessed of Him, the multitude was given the sacrament with it’s covenant to always remember Him.

The Law given to Moses was not the same as the covenant of Christ. It was a stepping stone to prepare a people but the covenant was always the vehicle for saving all of God’s children who were willing to be saved.

One element of the higher law is that it forces you to look beyond simple judgements. You need to honestly consider the break in your item eye rather than blithely condemning the mote in your brothers eye. Likewise you can’t assume that your outward works, no matter how good they appeared, will bring you into…

We need to remember in all the commandments that we have from our Heavenly Father that His desire isn’t simply for us to do certain things, it matters to Him what our motivations are because why we do things is more telling about what we are becoming than simply the actions themselves.

The lower law was one that a person could at least hardly keep (he might covet or briefly worship some other god in his heart without others knowing) – think “all these things have I done since my youth” – but the higher law is one that nobody can keep all the time everyone will…

I never really thought before of how the people who were in the land Bountiful were prepared to see Jesus. Of course I thought I’d the culling that had taken place with the destruction but the fact that they were speaking of Christ among themselves before He showed Himself indicates a spiritual preparation that was…

I can imagine that after three days there would have been changed sufficient to determine the time of the darkness besides referring to the prophecies but I wonder about the three hours of destruction at the beginning of that darkness I wonder how they could determine with any accuracy (and without any mechanical record of…

I didn’t realize before tonight that Nephi led the church from the birth of Christ until he visited – thirty years plus as their spiritual leader.

There was so little time since they had survived the threat of destruction that none of those who formed the new combination against the people of the Lord were ignorant of how destructive such combinations were but having rejected the gospel they were willing to risk burning down their entire civilization in order to pursue…

It offered to me tonight that morning knew the reason that he needed to write a condensed history from the records if the Nephites. He knew that it was because after him there would not be a people who would/could repent and preserve the records for another period of righteousness to come along. He was…